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Revolver (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Revolver is the seventh studio album by The Beatles, recorded in the spring of 1966 and released that August.The album was conceived during an unusually long break in the Fab Four's schedule in early 1966.note They were supposed to film their third movie, A Talent for Loving, during this period, but the project was canceled. Their music had already started becoming more sophisticated on their previous album, Rubber Soul, and they took advantage of the free time to develop their sound even further. Also, they spent the better part of three months in the studio (which was unheard of in The '60s), giving them plenty of time to experiment. Revolver made George Harrison more prominent than ever by giving him three songs, including the opening track. (The most he'd ever gotten on their previous albums was two.) It was also the last regular Beatles studio album to have different American and British track listings on original release.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The album is the subject of two books: Abacadabra!: The Complete Story of the Beatles' ''Revolver'' (2006), an e-book by Ray Newman, and Revolver: How the Beatles Reimagined Rock 'n' Roll (2012) by Robert Rodriguez (the music writer, not the filmmaker). It also receives a lot of coverage in Steve Turner's Beatles' 66: The Revolutionary Year (2016).Time magazine included the album in their 2006 list of 100 timeless and essential albums; it was listed at #3 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and at #2 on NME's similar list. Because of this it is currently the 2nd-most-acclaimed album according to Acclaimed Music's compilation of various critics' lists. Hits from the album include "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby", "Got to Get You Into My Life", and "Yellow Submarine". | |
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Creator Cameo: The Grammy Award-winning album cover was designed by Klaus Voormann, a German artist and musiciannote he'd just joined Manfred Mann whom the Beatles befriended in their Hamburg days. If you look closely, you can see Voormann's face and signature in George's hair, just beneath John's lips. | |
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Non Sequitur | |
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Non Sequitur: "And Your Bird Can Sing" actually makes sense if you ignore the lines that start with "and your bird..." For example: "You tell me that you've got everything you want, but you don't get me. You say you've seen seven wonders, but you can't see me." | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: "Taxman" was a protest against the 95% taxes on the group's income in Britain. The lines "Let me tell you how it will be, it's one for you, nineteen for me" and "Should five percent appear too small, be glad that I don't take it all" weren't jokes or empty rhetoric — in the mid-1960s, the highest tax band for income tax really was 95%. This was one of the reasons they started earning so much of their income in the United States, so they could be taxed at a lower rate. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "Taxman" is basically the titular character boasting that he will take 95% of your money - "one for you, nineteen for me" — and there's nothing you can do about it. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: All four Beatles wear Round Hippie Shades (for the first time) on the back cover photo. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: A cartoon portrait of the band, illustrated with smaller images of themselves interspersed throughout the picture. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Several songs have little or no precedent in The Beatles' previous music. They'd used a sitar on Rubber Soul's "Norwegian Wood", but "Love You To" was overtly influenced by Indian music and philosophy. "Got to Get You Into My Life", a tribute to Motown, Stax Records and Soul Music in general, marked the group's first use of a horn section. (Earth, Wind & Fire would later cover the song, bringing things full circle.) Meanwhile, "Tomorrow Never Knows" was the band's first excursion into Avant-garde Music; it anticipates The White Album's "Revolution #9", as well as John's early collaborations with Yoko Ono. It was also the first use of ADT "automatic double tracking" developed by Abbey Road studio engineer Ken Townsend at the behest of John Lennon. Townsend devised a system of creating a double tracking effect without the necessity of recording another vocal by playing back the original vocal slightly out of sync through a tape delay and recording it together with the original. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: "I'm Only Sleeping" (See lyric under Brilliant, but Lazy above). | |
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Ode to Intoxication | |
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Ode to Intoxication: Did you think "Got to Get You Into My Life" was a love song? It is. A love song about how much Paul McCartney loved to smoke marijuana. (Beatles '66 author Steve Turner has an alternate interpretation, suggesting that it's actually about McCartney's first LSD experience.) | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: How John portrays himself in "I'm Only Sleeping". | |
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Heavy Sleeper | |
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Heavy Sleeper: "I'm Only Sleeping" is about this. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
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Agony of the Feet: Paul kinda sorta mentions this in "Good Day Sunshine." | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: "She Said She Said" switches liberally between 3/4 and 4/4. | |
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The End of the Beginning | |
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The End of the Beginning: The final line of "Tomorrow Never Knows": "So play the game Existence to the end/ Of the beginning/ Of the beginning/ Of the beginning..." | |
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And Then I Said | |
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And Then I Said: "She Said, She Said" | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: The album's title is a wordplay on the type of handgun and the revolving motion of a record as it spins on the turntable. Nowadays though, this one might take a second to figure out. Before settling on Revolver, the group went through several other Working Titles for the album. One (probably facetious) suggestion from Ringo was After Geography, a play on The Rolling Stones' Aftermath from earlier that year. | |
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Lonely Funeral | |
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Lonely Funeral: "Eleanor Rigby". The lonely title character dreams of someday being married, but ultimately dies, her funeral service attended only by the equally lonely Father McKenzie. The lyrics specifically state that "nobody came" to her funeral. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: The title "Tomorrow Never Knows" came from one of Ringo's weird sentences, just like A Hard Day's Night. | |
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Call-and-Response Song | |
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Call-and-Response Song: Played With. The backing vocals in the bridge provide the call and George provides the response in "Taxman". | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
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Incredibly Long Note: At the end of "I Want To Tell You" George, John and Paul hold the word "time" well into the fade out. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: Tape loops used in "Tomorrow Never Knows" include: A "laughing" voice, often assumed to be Paul McCartney and played at double-speed (the "seagull" sound) An orchestral chord of B flat major (from a Sibelius symphony) A fast electric guitar phrase in C major, reversed and played at double-speed Another guitar phrase with heavy tape echo, with a B flat chord provided either by guitar, organ or possibly a Mellotron Mk II A sitar-like descending scalar phrase played on an electric guitar, reversed and played at double-speed | |
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Melismatic Vocals | |
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Melismatic Vocals: In "Love You To" and pulled off by Paul at the very end of "I Want to Tell You". | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out: "I'm Only Sleeping". | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
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Gratuitous Panning: "Taxman" used the "I Feel Free" method, bundling everything on the left channel, leaving tambourine and cowbell on the right, and filling the center with vocals. "Yellow Submarine" throws the vocals on the right channel, and the rest on the left. The sound fx stay on the center. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: George Martin, as usual. | |
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Echoing Acoustics | |
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Echoing Acoustics: "Tomorrow Never Knows", as Lennon wanted to sound "like a hundred chanting Tibetan monks". | |
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Working Title | |
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Before settling on Revolver, the group went through several other Working Titles for the album. One (probably facetious) suggestion from Ringo was After Geography, a play on The Rolling Stones' Aftermath from earlier that year. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: The subject of "I Want to Tell You". | |
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Aluminum Christmas Trees | |
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Aluminum Christmas Trees: In the post Ronald Reagan-Margaret Thatcher era, it can be hard to believe that "one for you, nineteen for me" is not an exaggeration; the British government in 1966 really did have a 95% top marginal tax rate.note That's marginal tax rate; that is, only your income over a certain very high amount was taxed at 95% | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: The album title does not appear in any of the lyrics. "Love You To"note although the lyric "I'll make love to you" comes close and "Tomorrow Never Knows" also don't get a mention in the songs themselves. | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song/Break-Up Song: "For No One" is about the end of "A love that should have lasted years". | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Several songs. "She Said She Said" is based on a famous incident from 1965. The Beatles note along with their entourage and at least two members of The Byrds were hanging out with Peter Fonda, and all except Paul were tripping on LSD. When a nervous George said "I feel like I'm dying", Fonda tried to reassure him by saying "I know what it's like to be dead"; he went on to tell the band that he'd almost died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound as a child, and death was nothing to worry about. John replied, "Who put all that shit in your head? You're making me feel like I've never been born". He based the song on a Gender Flipped, Bowdlerized version of this conversation. "Got to Get You into My Life" and "For No One" by Paul are based on his experience of pot and his failing relationship with his then-girlfriend, Jane Asher, respectively. "Taxman" by George attacks the progressive tax laws introduced by the Wilson Government, which despite their seemingly best effort failed to stop George from becoming a millionaire. It bears mentioning that 95% was the marginal tax rate; that is, all of George's income before he reached the 95% threshold was taxed at a lower value. As well as mentioning Harold Wilson himself, the song also mentions his rival Edward Heath. "I'm Only Sleeping", based on John's laziness. There actually is a gravestone on St. Peter's Church in Liverpool with the name Eleanor Rigby (1898-1939) on it! Paul has commented that he might have seen the gravestone during his youth and subconsciously remembered it, for he didn't deliberately name the character in the song after her. | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "I Want to Tell You". | |
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World Music | |
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World Music: George Harrison plays sitar during "Love You To", an instrument he learned to master thanks to Ravi Shankar. He played it earlier during "Norwegian Wood" on Rubber Soul (1965) and would play it again on "Within You Without You" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and "The Inner Light", the b-side to their 1968 non-album single "Lady Madonna". | |
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Studio Chatter | |
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Studio Chatter: At the beginning of "Taxman", George slowly counts "one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four" on the right channel against a backdrop of studio background noises, before Paul's much faster "one, two, three, four!" on the left leads into the song itself. One can hear John saying, "Yawn, Paul" before someone, supposedly Paul, yawns in "I'm Only Sleeping". John, very quietly, repeats "She feels good" after Paul sings that phrase in "Good Day Sunshine". | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: "Yellow Submarine" has some speech and submarine sounds in it: "Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!" | |
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Rhyming with Itself | |
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Rhyming with Itself: In "Got to Get You Into My Life". 'There' is rhymed with 'there', 'you' with 'you' and 'life' with 'life'. From another perspective, it rhymes "find there" with "mind there" and "hold you" with "told you." | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: Right at the end of "Good Day Sunshine". | |
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Second-Person Narration | |
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Second-Person Narration: "For No One" uses it. | |
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Intimidating Revenue Service | |
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Intimidating Revenue Service: "Taxman", inspired by how the British government wanted to take too much out of George's income; at the time, the Beatles were being taxed at a marginal income tax rate of 95% (a fairly common marginal rate for the top tax bracket in European countries at the time, and not the highest—some Nordics applied 99% income tax brackets). This is noted in the lyrics ("There's one for you/Nineteen for me"). | |
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One-Man Song | |
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One-Man Song: "Taxman". | |
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What Are Records? | |
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The album's title is a wordplay on the type of handgun and the revolving motion of a record as it spins on the turntable. Nowadays though, this one might take a second to figure out. | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: The Beatles were turning away from this trope, but Paul provides two straight examples, "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Good Day Sunshine". "Got to Get You Into My Life" seems like a love song, but is actually a disguised ode to marijuana. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: "Yellow Submarine". Originally just a really beloved song on Revolver, it would eventually go on to spawn its own album and movie. | |
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Boy Meets Girl | |
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Boy Meets Girl: One could interpret "Eleanor Rigby" in this light as well—although in this particular case, both parties are probably up in years. Still tragic, though... | |
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Take That! | |
| Revolver (Music) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: "And Your Bird Can Sing" is frequently interpreted as a swipe at Mick Jagger, whose "bird" at the time was singer Marianne Faithfull. | |
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Character Title | |
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Character Title: "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby" and "Doctor Robert". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Taxman" provides a shout-out to British politicians Edward Heath and Harold Wilson — at the time, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. | |
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Protagonist Title | |
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Protagonist Title: "Eleanor Rigby" about a poor woman who dies alone and forgotten. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Mentioned in "And Your Bird Can Sing". | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: The album itself and "Taxman". | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: "Taxman" (about the irritation of paying taxes) and "I'm Only Sleeping" (about sleeping). | |
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Dr. Feelgood | |
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Dr. Feelgood: "Doctor Robert", apparently based on a real-life medical drug peddler. | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: "Tomorrow Never Knows". | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: The enigmatic lyrics of "And Your Bird Can Sing" are very open to interpretation. Jonathan Gould (author of Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America) theorizes that John intended them as a Take That! to Frank Sinatra for Ol' Blue Eyes' criticism of The Beatles and rock music in general.note Sinatra underwent some evolution on this, covering the Beatles' "Something" and striking up a friendship with David Bowie in the mid '70s. Musicologist Alan Pollack instead suggested they reflect a kind of mid-life crisis John was undergoing at the time, also hinted at in his infamous Maureen Cleave interview. Another theory is that the song is a Take That! to The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and the "bird"note "Bird" being English slang for a young woman at the time in the song referred to his then girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull. As noted in Non Sequitur above, however, the main source of the Word Salad is in the lines that start with "and your bird...", without which the song would be a pretty straightforward condemnation of Pride and materialism. | |
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Design Student's Orgasm | |
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Design Student's Orgasm: The album cover, designed by Klaus Voormann, who would later also design the cover of The Beatles Anthology. This YouTube video shows the original photos that were Voormann's sources for the collage. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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OOC Is Serious Business: In common with all the previous Beatles' albums there's a photo of the band on the cover, but for the first time, they aren't looking at the camera, but at each other. (Specifically, the other three are all looking at Ringo, who's looking past the camera and wearing sunglasses.) | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of...: "Good Day Sunshine" is done in the style of The Lovin' Spoonful, in particular their song "Daydream". | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: While it wasn't the intention, "Tomorrow Never Knows" today sounds like an early attempt at Industrial, particularly when the Leslie speaker-filtered vocal starts. | |
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Absentee Actor | |
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Absentee Actor: Several tracks have at least one Beatle missing. John Lennon doesn't appear on "Love You To". "For No One" has only Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and French horn player Alan Civil. "She Said She Said", the last track recorded, probably counts as well. Paul once told a biographer that he left the session in a huff after arguing with the other Beatles, leaving George Harrison to cover for him on bass. The style of bass on the song is noticeably different from most of the rest of the album. There's no official documentation to support it, but most Beatles experts, including Robert Rodriguez, seem to agree that Paul isn't on the finished version. | |
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Dead Sparks | |
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Dead Sparks: Paul's "For No One" is all about this. | |
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Taxman Takes the Winnings | |
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Taxman Takes the Winnings: "Taxman" is a scathing critique on taxes - in particular, the British government’s then-highest income tax band (95%). | |
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Never Trust a Title | |
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Never Trust a Title: The title for "Love You To" makes it seem like it'll sound similar to their earlier worknote Like "Love Me Do", "She Loves You", "Please Please Me", etc.. Then you actually play the song and BAM! Indian Sitar! | |
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